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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457863803321

Autore

Fregoso Rosa Linda

Titolo

The bronze screen [[electronic resource] ] : Chicana and Chicano film culture / / Rosa Linda Fregoso

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993

ISBN

0-8166-8458-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Disciplina

320.5/32/0945

791.43

791.43/652036872

Soggetti

Culture in motion pictures

Mexican Americans in motion pictures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Photographs; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Bronze Screen: Looking at Us Looking; 1 Actos of ""Imaginative Re-discovery""; 2 Intertextuality and Cultural Identity in Zoot Suit (1981) and La Bamba (1987); 3 Humor as Subversive De-construction: Born in East L.A. (1987); 4 From Il(l)egal to Legal Subject: Border Construction and Re-construction; 5 Nepantla in Gendered Subjectivity; 6 Conclusion: Eastside Story Re-visited; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Explores Chicana and Chicano popular culture through contemporary representations in both Hollywood commercial and independent cinema.Rosa Linda Fregoso's The Bronze Screen opens the way for international debate on the new critical field of Chicano/a cinema. Fregoso provides an incisive articulation of the ways in which narrative codes in film can telescope complex versions of Mexican and American culture and history. The often violent impact of 'first' (U.S.) and 'third' (Mexico) world cultures and geographies is channeled through the very term Chicano/a as well as its cin